Anna Maria Schreiter (1872-1960)
Portrait
Anna Marie Schreiter
Story: Anna had "a way" with plants and animals
Anna with her turkeys, at the family cottage in Forestville, Michigan
Like her mother before her, and like her two daughters after her, my maternal grandmother and namesake, Anna, had "a way” with plants and animals. When I think of her, which I do often, I almost always picture her in her garden or tending to her chickens, ducks, or turkeys.
Here she is with her flock, in front of the turkey coop at the Riedel cottage compound on Lake Huron. That same turkey coop became the primitive cabin that I and my parents used to visit in the summer when we were still living in Michigan. My husband and children also saw it when we visited the Riedel cottage in 1976.
Turkey coop cottage
Individual Facts
- Name: Anna Maria Schreiter
- Sex: Female
- Birth: 26 Mar 1872, Zwickau, Saxony, Germany
- Migration (Foreign): 1873, Saxony, Germany to Forestville, Michigan
- Death: 31 Oct 1960, Fenton, Genesee, Michigan, USA
- Burial: Forestville, Sanilac, Michigan, USA, Delaware Township Cemetery
- Religion: Lutheran
Zwickau, Germany, Anna's birthplace
Shared Facts
- Marriage: (Louis Hermann Riedel) 16 Jul 1891, Forestville, Sanilac, Michigan, USA
- Children: 4 sons, 2 daughters
Louis and Anna Riedel
Relationships
- Father: Ehregott August Albin Schreiter (1843-1929)
- Mother: Friederika Luise Dorsch (1845-1894)
- Spouse: Louis Hermann Riedel (1869-1951)
- Son: Albert Louis Riedel (1892-1989)
- Son: Louis Albert Riedel (1893-1974)
- Son: Raymond Robert Riedel (1895-1939)
- Daughter: Selma Louise Riedel (1897-1978)
- Daughter: Nettie Augusta Riedel (1906-2000)
- Son: Paul Schreiter Riedel (1911-1994)
For more information
Key sources of information included here, and where to get additional information.
- Ancestry Member Tree: "vanRaaphorst-Riedel-1" (Tree ID 104917897, ancestry.com), owned by avanraaphorst; access requires appropriate sharing/permissions
- Riedel-Schreiter Family History Book (contains the complete set of "Letters Home") (PDF)
- Archived post from News from Nan about "Letters Home" (the story of the Schreiter/Riedel migration from Germany to the USA, as told by Alvin Schreiter in letters to his brother Otto, back home in Germany) (PDF)
- Schreiter Family Page (PDF)
- German and Dutch history and geography (PDF)